Shawn Downey has joined St. Louis-based Knoebel Construction as a project manager responsible for overseeing all aspects of various retail center, restaurant, grocery and retail store construction projects.

A Chicago-based joint venture has retained JLL to market the rollout of the next phase of The Boulevard St. Louis mixed-use development, which owners confirm will break ground early next year and open year end 2019.

Construction has officially begun on ARTerra, a 12-story luxury residential building that is the first high-rise apartment building to be built in the Crossroads Arts District area of downtown Kansas City, Missouri. The project is being jointly developed by Altus Properties of St. Louis and Copaken Brooks of Kansas City.

CRG is providing turnkey build-to-suit services to complete the new BioPlace for Pfizer in Chesterfield, Missouri. CRG is collaborating with Clayco, the design-builder on the project, for this office and laboratory space.

Kansas City government officials have high hopes for a newly designed, single-terminal airport serving their city. These officials say that a single-terminal building, which would replace the three-terminal set-up already in place at Kansas City International Airport, would attract a greater number of companies to the Kansas City, Missouri, market.